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Steve Veatch
About
Born 1957, George Air Force Base, California. Lives and works in Seattle, Washington.THE OBLIGATORY ARTIST STATEMENT
I want, need and fear people. These are the axes upon which my work turns. But I admit that my work reflects difficulty in indicating the marvelous and beautiful of people, so people must be aestheticized by my work. Still, something there is grand in humanity, or I would not make art.
With those axes, I struggle against the literal image that saturates our lives by introducing poetic elements of chance and paring some referential fat. My images are sometimes from direct observation, but they are often found or original photographs. I project upon these images my sensibilities of beauty, humor, loneliness, anger, anxiety, depression, decay, mortality. I want to be direct as a hammer. My hope is that these are conveyed with pleasing paint handling. The images are further modified by art materials mutability in an embrace of chaos and control, luck and intention: I like to gamble. For example, I use media in ways encouraging risky development, pushed to acceptance or rejection: water media on paper with aleatory flow and buckling, and etching ink mixed with alkyd and oil paints. With etching ink and oils, the resulting properties allow flow while worked upright, but the surface continues to break up while horizontal. Again, gambling. Gambling reflecting our actions and luck in life.
The best definition I know of for intuition has it as "the rich distillation of experience". I trust intuition to coordinate with these techniques and sensibilities, resulting in something better than anything done with fastidious control.
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- Location
- Seattle, WA, United States
- Website
- http://steveveatch.com/home.html
843 Hiawatha Place South #211 Seattle WA 98144 206.517.7996 steve.veatch@gmail.com
EDUCATION
1999 MFA in Painting, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago
Studied under Candida Alvarez, Susanna Coffey, Ted Halkin, Arturo Herrera, Jim Nutt, Frank Piatek, Ray Yoshida.
1995 The International School of Art, Umbria, Italy
Studied under Nic Carone, Andrew Forge, Bruce Gagnier.
1986 BFA in Painting, Colorado State University
2007 Artist Trust EDGE Professional Development Program
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Steve Veatch: Recent Work, Hiawatha Artspace Gallery, Seattle
1997 Clean, Well Lit Windows, Project 416, Seattle
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2011 Samson Projects, Boston Massachusetts
2010 Artspace Gallery, Seattle Washington
2009 Kulture Klash, Navy Yard, Charleston, South Carolina
2008 Living With Doom, Collective Visions Gallery, Bremerton, Washington
2004 Live Nude Goats, Art Not Terminal, Seattle
2003 Heaven and Hell, Kuhlman, Seattle
Plinth II, Gulassa, Seattle
2002 LAVA 2002, Noodleworks, Seattle
First War of the New Millennium, S.O.I.L., Seattle
Live Nude Goats, OSEA Studios, Seattle
2001 Kustom Purse, Kuhlman, Seattle
Faux Naturale, The Fuzzy Engine, Seattle
Mania, The Fuzzy Engine, Seattle
2000 Look Both Ways, The Fuzzy Engine
The El Camino Effect, The Fuzzy Engine
1999 More, Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle Center.
Nippon 6, part 2, Nippon Steel USA headquarters, Chicago
1998 New Artists in Chicago, The Chicago Arts Coalition, Chicago
Nippon 6, part 1, Nippon Steel USA headquarters, Chicago
1997 The Northwest International, Whatcom Art Museum, Bellingham,
Washington
1996 Four, Project 416, Seattle
1995 Thirty-Eight by Fifty, The Wonderful World of Art, Seattle
Plus or Minus Seventeen, The Wonderful World of Art
Dark's Art Parlour, Los Angeles
1994 The Puget Area Exhibition, The Frye Art Museum, Seattle
The New Degenerates, The Caged Chameleon, Los Angeles
1993 The Puget Area Exhibition, The Frye Art Museum, Seattle
1992 The Puget Area Exhibition, The Frye Art Museum, Seattle
1992 Eastside Association of Fine Arts 16th annual juried show, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, Washington
1991 Bumbershoot Invitational Self-Portrait show, Seattle Center, Seattle
1987 Power Plant Visual Arts Center, Fort Collins Colorado
1986 Lloyd's Aartvaark, Fort Collins
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Veatch, Steve KNOCK #10, The Dead Friends Issue, pages 94-95. Seattle: Antioch University, fall 2008, ISSN 1551 5931
Veatch, Steve One Shot 2007, Seattle: Visual Codec, 2007 ISBN-13: 978-0-9794058-0-8, ISBN-10: 0-9794058-0-7
Fahey, Anna. West Coast Reviews, Art Papers, September-October, 2002
Hall, Emily. "Pay Attention, Please." The Stranger, May 30-June 5, 2002
Fahey, Webb, and Rhonda Howard. LAVA 2002, pages 134-137. Seattle: THREAD, 2002.
Farr, Sheila. "Rampant energy drives show at Fuzzy Engine." The Seattle Times, April 20, 2001
Hall, Emily. "Now with goats." The Stranger, February 1, 2001
Hackett, Regina. "Young artists give grim views of a slippery world." The Seattle Union Record. December 13, 2000
Hall, Emily. "CAREFUL!" The Stranger. December 7, 2000
Fahey, Anna. "Nothing subtle 'bout these variations on a theme." The Seattle Weekly, November 23-29, 2000
Kurtz, Katie J. "Exhibit intrigues by playing it safe." The Seattle Times. November 17, 2000
Hall, Emily. "That's Absurd!." The Stranger. October 5, 2000
Hackett, Regina. "Fuzzy Engine revs up its internal contradictions." The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. September 27, 2000
Burkman, Greg. Art Access, April 1995
Curtis, Kathy. "Exhibitions Wander Through Once-Taboo Territory." The Los Angeles Times. May 3rd, 1994
"Paintings." Exhibition. Bainbridge Island Arts Council. Spring/Summer 1993, pages 20-21
AWARDS AND GRANTS
1997-1999 Tuition Grants, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago
1996 Artist Trust GAP grant
1992 Pelican Bay Foundation General Support Grant.
Second Place, Frye Art Museum Puget Area Exhibit
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Future Shows: My collage, Give Me Today And I Will Take Tomorrow, has been featured in a book published by Visual Codec in March 2007. visualcodec.com
